#recalled

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#great #halfway #mistake #moment #perhaps

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. ↗

— Martin Amis

#cannot #gun #out #recalled #taken

Death is life's way of telling you, you've been recalled ↗

— Josh Stern

#death #life #recalled #telling #death

Time flies never to be recalled. ↗

— Virgil

#never #recalled #time #time flies

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#did #faded #flowers #gladness #last

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? ↗

— Sophocles

#cannot #crying #done #milk #over

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#bestowed #better #blesses #days #gives

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while. ↗

— George Grosz

#discharged #few #free #free man #given

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. ↗

— Ovid

#hour #neither #nor #passed #recalled